This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 24, 2022

 

“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.”

—Truman Capote,

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s Until Now

Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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2 Responses to This Week’s Southernism, Monday, January 24, 2022

  1. Randall O’Brien says:

    Capote must have wintered in Iowa.

  2. David E Johnson says:

    So love the beautiful photographs of deborah fagen Carpenter with the wonderful winter quote by Truman Capote

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